Boldini, Giovanni
Giovanni Boldini (jōvän´nē bōldē´nē), 1842–1931, Italian portrait painter. Having worked in Florence and London, he reached his peak of creativity and success in Paris, painting romantic vignettes and portraits. His works are distinguished by the bravura of the brushwork. A portrait of Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough, with Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill is in the Metropolitan Museum.
More From encyclopedia.com
John Smibert , Smibert, John
Smibert, John
1688
Edinburgh, Scotland
First portrait painter in colonial America
"Thy Fame, O Smibert, shall the Muse rehearse,/And si… Gilbert Stuart , Gilbert Stuart
Gilbert Stuart
Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828), American painter, was the classical portraitist of the early republic, painting likenesses… MINIATURE , MINIATURE
MINIATURE. In Europe, about 1520, the independent miniature, or "limning," evolved from the illuminated manuscript. In eighteenth-century A… Rosalba Carriera , Carriera, Rosalba
CARRIERA, ROSALBA (1675–1757), Italian painter, known for miniatures on ivory. The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Rosalba Carr… Portraiture , Representations of monks, nuns, and members of the laity flourished in East Asian and Tibetan Buddhist traditions. In pre-Buddhist Han China, portrai… Sir Peter Lely , Sir Peter Lely
Sir Peter Lely
Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680), a German-born painter who worked in England, was the most famous baroque portrait painter a…
You Might Also Like
NEARBY TERMS
Boldini, Giovanni